Landmark-based navigation of industrial mobile robots

Industrial Robot

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 458-467

  Hu, Huosheng ^a   Gu, Dongbing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Filter; Localization; Neural networks; Robots

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012299478     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910010378879     Document Type: Article

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